Steve Martin SUCCESS

[jason1980s]

I got the books in 2004 so it may not be valid but I think it was LA Films.

I sent the book in a bubble mailer with bubble return SASE. I received the bubble SASE back with a signed 8x10 (usual one he was sending at the time with the secretarial signature). Not too long after that I received an LA Films return mailer with the book I had sent and the real autograph.
He was contracted to sign the Looney Toons cards so they must be real of he would be in breech of contract. Sure, he probably signed a stack of them and signatures do become messy after a while but in signing a stack of fanmail all the autographs are neat and signed with personalizations. Reason for that is, it's not him signing.

It was pure luck getting the book signed, no research of anything like that, so it's possible it was a very rare success because I sent two more books about a year later and got the secretarial signatures on the right side book pictured and another one he did.

Only way to get a great collection is to learn from the experienced collectors and learn from trial and error. Experienced is the key word as we learned from the good and the bad. When we first started, there were very few websites that had message boards. We got the addresses from books or from personal websites where the collector didn't know secretarials. Even some big time collectors back then didn't know about fakes like Charlton Heston or Tony Curtis.